Director of Engagement — Marketing & Comms Strategy

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">About Social Driver:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">Social Driver is a leading communications and digital agency that partners with top brands, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations to create impactful campaigns, engagement strategies, and digital experiences. We believe in the power of partnerships, storytelling, and community-driven solutions to move people and organizations forward.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br><br>About this Position: </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">Social Driver is seeking a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Director of Engagement — Marketing & Communications Strategy</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> to join our Client Engagement team. This is a senior client-facing leadership role that sits at the intersection of communications thinking and modern marketing execution.<br><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">This Director owns a dedicated portfolio of clients whose work spans paid media, organic social, email marketing, content, SEO, and influencer strategy — serving as the primary strategic partner and relationship owner for those accounts. Beyond their own client portfolio, this role is a key contributor to the broader engagement team, stepping in to support peer accounts and ensuring continuity across the department when needed.<br><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt">The ideal candidate brings agency experience, fluency across the full marketing channel mix, a strong communications foundation, and the ability to think at the campaign and program level while keeping client relationships strong and the work moving forward.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br>Key Responsibilities</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br>Client Strategy & Relationship Leadership</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Serve as the primary strategic point of contact for a portfolio of clients across marketing and communications disciplines.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Develop deep knowledge of each client’s business, audience, and goals, and translate that knowledge into smart, actionable strategies.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Lead client meetings, presentations, and reviews with confidence and clarity.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships that result in high client retention and satisfaction.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Anticipate client needs and proactively bring forward ideas, opportunities, and solutions.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br>Marketing & Communications Strategy</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Direct integrated marketing and communications strategies across paid media, organic social, email, content/SEO, and influencer/partnerships, providing strategic direction while internal specialists execute.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Translate client objectives into well-structured campaign frameworks, editorial strategies, and channel plans.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Ensure all strategic recommendations are grounded in audience insight, brand positioning, and measurable goals.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Review and provide strategic direction on creative and content deliverables across client accounts.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Stay current on platform trends, marketing best practices, and the evolving media landscape to bring fresh thinking to every client.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br>Project & Program Oversight</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Own the overall strategic direction and arc of client programs, ensuring work is scoped, planned, and executed in a way that delivers on defined goals.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Partner with project management and internal teams to maintain timelines, quality, and delivery standards across accounts.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Step in as a senior contributor on peer accounts when needed, ensuring seamless continuity for clients.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Identify and escalate risks early, and solve problems with a solutions-first mindset.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br>Qualifications</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Agency experience. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">You’ve worked in a fast-paced communications, digital, or marketing agency environment and know what it takes to manage multiple clients, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously. Experience in more traditional or in-house marketing organizations is a plus, you bring the best of both worlds.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Strategic range across the marketing mix.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt"> You have a strong command of integrated marketing strategy, including paid media, organic social, email, content, SEO, and influencer marketing, and can provide confident strategic direction across all of them.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Client relationship instincts. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">You are a natural relationship builder. Clients trust you, value your counsel, and enjoy working with you. You know how to manage up, manage expectations, and be a true partner to your clients.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Communications depth. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">You have a strong foundation in communications strategy, including messaging, narrative development, and audience segmentation, and can move fluidly between communications-first and marketing-first work.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Project architecture skills. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">You can look at a complex client program and organize it, defining priorities, scoping work, sequencing activities, and keeping a team aligned around a clear plan.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Strong communicator. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">You write well, present confidently, and can adapt your communication style to a range of audiences, from junior team members to C-suite clients.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Experience. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">7+ years of relevant experience, with at least 4 years in a client-facing role at an agency or agency-like environment.</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Travel.</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt"> Occasional, as-needed travel may be required to support key initiatives and client engagements.</span></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">How to Apply:</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">Apply online with your resume and a cover letter that outlines how you would be a great fit for the position.</span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Benefits: </span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">We take pride in our culture and offer a competitive salary with great benefits, like flexible PTO, 401k, continuing education, phone reimbursement, medical dental, and vision, short-term/long-term disability, a bike-share membership, flexible work schedules including “Fast Lane” and “No Meeting Fridays”, and great colleagues. </span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold"><br></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Commitment to DEI: </span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 10pt">Social Driver is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring, marketing, programming, and in all other aspects of the work we do. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are deeply connected to our mission, our success, and our culture.</span></p>

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